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05-02-2008, 09:01 AM
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Theme: Contest #21, May, 2008
The theme for the PentaxForums.com May Photo Contest is:
Yellow Macro Your task in this contest is to use either your macro setting on your camera, or to crop your image to get in close to your subject. One catch, your subject must be yellow. Other colors may be present in your photo as long as the main theme or subject is yellow. As usual, plase do not post your submissions as replies to this thread! Make a new thread in the submission sub-forum instead! If this is your first contest, you may be interested in reading the following articles: Contest Procedure | Contest Rules Good luck to all participants!
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05-02-2008, 09:53 AM
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Very interesting, I think is time for my first entry on the montlhy contest.
Keep it up...
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05-02-2008, 09:58 AM
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So how many yellow flowers will we see, 75%, 90% of the submittals?
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05-02-2008, 12:19 PM
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I don't have a Macro lens (as you can see by my list below) and I was wondering if there was a inexpensive way to do some Macro shooting?
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05-02-2008, 01:21 PM
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FL Gulfer : you could always try Close Up Filters. They usually come in sets of 3 and are very effective.
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05-02-2008, 01:35 PM
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I used to use my telephoto for Macro shots, you can't do excesively close but you can get pretty good results; maybe with your 250 or 300.
Just use a tripod and the full zoom and if you put something to make a shade over the subject will be so much better. Also the Close Up filters as Bralema says are very effective, you will maybe get a kind of vignete but you can crop them later.
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05-02-2008, 09:35 PM
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Thanks.. I ordered this cheap set of filters just to see how they work...
4 FILTER 1 MACRO + 3 Close Up Lens Set 62mm / kit / New - eBay (item 110247702185 end time May-04-08 16:13:07 PDT) |
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05-03-2008, 07:06 AM
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Not just flowers are yellow:
This was taken with a reversed Pentax 50mm 1.4 Super Takumar. reveresed on a Canon A70 PS camera so not eligible for the comp so will post here as an example. 
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05-03-2008, 01:18 PM
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Never know..
Originally Posted by atupdate
You never know Tim... I am sure there will a fair share of flowers but we have a lot of creative people on this site.... 
I will be intersting to see what everyone comes up with... Nice topic Adam.. Now the tough part... figuring out what to put in for an entry...... 
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05-05-2008, 05:30 PM
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This sounds very interesting. I've got a couple shots in mind for this....
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05-06-2008, 06:51 PM
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Yellow Tiger Swallowtail on a Veronica Plant (not yellow)
At least it's not a flower, and the subject is yellow!
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05-06-2008, 08:39 PM
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Well, there may be yellow flowers...
and then again there may be yellow flowers with yellow insects... and then again there may be yellow flowers with yellow insects killing each other. Then again, maybe not  Stephen Last edited by SCGushue; 06-22-2008 at 05:26 PM.. |
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05-07-2008, 01:17 PM
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Did anyone ever answer the question about using the Pentax clone cameras?
My film cameras are Pentax, but by new digital is a Samsung GX-1L (ist DL2 clone). Thanks, Ray
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05-07-2008, 02:39 PM
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"Well, there may be yellow flowers...
and then again there may be yellow flowers with yellow insects... and then again there may be yellow flowers with yellow insects killing each other."  |
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05-16-2008, 02:09 AM
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Or it could be a yellow bird!
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